0.25 oz Spork Perfect for Outdoor Enthusiasts Seeking Lightweight Gear

It has become trendier these days to pack your meals when you’re going out, whether to eat lunch in the office or to enjoy a brief excursion. It’s not always a positive experience, though, and not just because of the food preparation but also because of the tableware you have to bring. There’s a specific class of utensils designed to be carried around, but many of them are either too heavy or even too flimsy. And then there’s the fact that most of these come as a set that you bring with you all the time, and if you lose one, the rest become almost unusable. The 0.25 oz Aero Spork was designed precisely to address those concerns, combining an innovative design and expert craftsmanship to deliver the one cutlery to rule them all.

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Although most indoor cutlery is made from metal, there is a wider variety of those that are designed to travel with you, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. Plastic utensils are lightweight but easy to break, while metal is durable but heavy. Some try to have very thin bodies to offset that weight, but they end up making your hands feel cramped after a while. They also mostly come as a set, at most a pair of a spoon and a fork, but you’ll be left at a disadvantage when you lose one or the other. Of course, sporks exist to combine those two into one, but the vast majority of them are more cumbersome to use than they’re worth.

This lightweight metal spork, in contrast, was meticulously designed to give your hands a break while you’re taking your lunch break. At only 0.25oz (7g), you can hardly feel its weight so your hand won’t feel strained the more you enjoy your meal. Being lightweight, however, doesn’t mean it’s fragile. With a special anodized aluminum exoskeleton, it remains tough as nails and ready to scoop up or pierce through food.

The spork’s design might strike one as odd, but it wasn’t made on a whim nor is it purely aesthetic. Inspired by the curved plate structure used in architecture like the Sydney Opera House, the spork gains a body that is both lightweight and surprisingly strong. The wide and curved handle is also designed for ergonomics, allowing your finger to rest more comfortably inside the curve. Even the shape of the head itself is different from the norm. Instead of trying to copy the rounded shape of spoons, it tapers a bit towards the tip to make it easier to twirl noodles like pasta around it.

Sporks were invented to have both a spoon and a fork in one for practical convenience, but their designs haven’t exactly been comfortable to use, long-lasting, and visually appealing. In other words, they’re not considered the best cutlery to use. Made by expert metalworkers from Tsubame City, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, this innovative metal spork shatters those misconceptions with a lightweight yet durable body, a unique yet practical design, and a beautiful minimalist aesthetic that makes each bite a joy.

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This tiny card-sized travel cutlery kit is both eco-friendly and incredibly classy!

Sure, your travel cutlery kit helps solve the plastic problem this planet is facing – but here’s the question. Is it actually designed to evoke a sense of desirability? Being compact, foldable, portable are all technical requirements, and as a result, compact cutlery often tends to look too ‘industrial’. Eating food is a multi-sensorial experience, and we work hard to make our food look good, so how about making travel cutlery that looks good too?

Designers: Eric Tong, Hannah Morris & Jordan Lau

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Meet Uphold, a ridiculously compact travel cutlery kit that’s about the size of a cardholder. It measures a mere 10mm in thickness (0.4 inches for you imperial folk), but houses a spoon, fork, and knife on the inside. Designed out of food-grade titanium alloy, aluminum alloy, and a flexible TPU/TPE snap-fit mechanism, Uphold’s cutlery is flat when you need it to be, and ergonomically curved when you want to grab some food! Just take the flat cutlery out, pinch the flexible parts to cause the spoon and fork to bend into shape, and lock the handle/grip in place, and you’ve gone from two-dimensional to too-delicious!

Uphold combines great design with technically-driven problem-solving abilities. The cutlery is incredibly portable, with a flat-packed design that slides into pockets, wallets, bags, etc. However, it also doesn’t compromise on the eating experience, providing the right kind of ergonomics and even looking edgy while it transports food from your plate to your mouth!

The kit comes as a 5-part set along with a portable case to carry your Uphold around. Open the case and you’re greeted with a flat-packed spoon, fork, knife, and two handles. To use the spoon or fork, simply pinch the flexible TPU/TPE part and the metal bends right into shape, using an origami-inspired set of fold lines. Lock the handles into place to keep the spoon and fork curved, and you can begin using them (while the knife doesn’t need to be curved or bent). Each piece of cutlery comes made from food-grade titanium alloy, aluminum alloy, and BPA-free TPU/TPE that can take temperatures up to 110°C, allowing you to eat piping hot meals without worrying about your cutlery getting damaged. The cutlery is all easy to clean too, with no hidden areas that could trap or accumulate food or grease.

Each Uphold Cutlery kit weighs a mere 75 grams (making it probably the lightest reusable metallic travel cutlery kit out there) and is rated for at least 3000 uses, allowing it to last over a decade with regular daily use if maintained well. Moreover, every part of the Uphold Cutlery is easy to disassemble and 100% recyclable, giving it the cradle-to-cradle approach that our cutlery today really needs – because with just Americans disposing of 100 million plastic spoons and forks every day, we’re running out of time to change our behavior if we want to save the planet!

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Anthropologie’s reusable cutlery nest into each other to become an easy-to-carry bundle

There are a combination of reasons why people just prefer disposable cutlery over carrying their own… probably the biggest of them is the fact that the flatware we use at home isn’t designed for travel. Sustainability’s biggest barrier is that it isn’t always the most convenient of solutions – although that’s where some good old-fashioned design thinking and problem-solving kick in. Anthropologie’s Reusable Travel Flatware makes it easy to have all your cutlery together with you wherever you travel. With a neat nesting design, the three-piece set becomes a singular bundle that slides right into your travel bag or backpack, making it easy to carry on that camping trip, or even to work where you can bust it out during your lunch-break.

Made from 100% recyclable and sustainable polyamide thermoplastic that’s manufactured using renewable resources, the Reusable Travel Flatware champions convenience over everything else. Their clever design makes them easy to carry around as a set, and unlike other travel cultery, they don’t compromise on shape/size/comfort to be portable.

Designer: Anthropologie

Each travel flatware set isn’t just designed to be reusable, it’s manufactured out of recyclable plastic too, which means that after years of use, you can safely dispose of it without worrying about generating waste. Providing a much more sustainable alternative to single-use disposable cutlery, one set of Anthropologie’s Reusable Travel Flatware replaces 250 disposable cutlery sets per year, greatly helping to reduce your carbon footprint.

This 5-piece travel cutlery set has to be one of the most stylish ones I’ve ever seen

Portability seems to be a very coincidental element of the Linden Travel Cutlery Set’s design. Minus the case, it looks like the kind of fine flatware you’d have in your house (and probably only take out when the guests come over), so the fact that you can slip them into a travel case and carry them around seems like a very interesting feature!

Inspired by the shape of leaves, Linden’s flatware boast of an organic design that embraces style more than a function-led form language. The cutlery kit comes with two spoons (a tablespoon and a dessert spoon), a fork, a knife, and a pair of chopsticks, packaged wonderfully in a steel case with a bamboo lid. The case is aptly sized to fit right into backpacks, making it easy to carry around, and the bamboo lid conveniently doubles up as a resting platform for the chopsticks when in use!

Created as a stylish, convenient, and reusable alternative to disposable plastic cutlery, the Linden Portable Cutlery Set hopes to spearhead the Bring Your Own Cutlery movement and reduce the tonnes of plastic waste entering landfills and our oceans each year. Combine that noble purpose with Linden’s stylish design and the three color options, and you’ve got yourself an absolute winner!

Designer: Linden